I have to rant a bit about the stupidity of the Finnish import car system. When a Finnish citizen brings a foreign car to the country, you have to declare it to the customs. They give you 5 day permission to drive it. If you don't start the car tax process during those five days, your car becomes illegal to drive on the road. If you fill the paper work and start the car tax lottery, you get 3 month driving permission. Normally they manage to calculate the taxes quite quickly, then they bill you and you have two weeks to pay (if you import a new Ferrari, it can be six figures) and that's it.
Problems arise if they for some reason can not figure out the tax in three months. It's their fault, your problem. Or in our case, the car spend almost two months in a garage as we were looking for new driving lights etc. Just before taking it to MOT, I started the car tax process online. Now the car is legal to drive, but not for three months like I expected, only until 18th of November. Why? Well, the three months timeframe apparently begins when the car arrives to Finland, not when you start the whole process.
Had we waited until spring, the car would've been illegal all the time until somebody had spun the car tax roulette and we had paid the tax.
And all of this could be avoided, if the country wouldn't want to earn money by taxing sheds brought and bought from another EU countries.
Oh, how much is the tax? We have no idea, something between 1000 and 2000 euros probably.